And now a browser game from the Indie Games Blog that could basically describe my current relationship. Save Toshi is a game about guiding a girl to a dancefloor even though she can’t walk, because if she doesn’t dance she will die. Where Save Toshi differs from my life is that in the game you’ll be achieving this using thrown balls, and half the time you’ll accidentally crush her or drop her into some water. God, you know, that sounds like my life again.
I like Save Toshi because your more unfortunate mistakes (catapulting Toshi into space, crushing her with a stone boulder) would dredge up laughter from the saddest of souls, and there’s some really clever puzzles in there. Reasons to dislike Save Toshi include that attempting the same solution for a puzzle twice is capable of producing two very different results, and lots of levels are locked out to us, becoming available in the “deluxe” iPhone edition. Boo. Not that the PC version has a dearth of levels, or anything. Go play!

Yeah, she doesn’t sound particularly Japanese…surely they could’ve got some Japanese gal to voice it.

And to be honest solving the puzzles isn’t quite as funny as finding new ways to kill her. My favourite is: She slides from an ice desk to the edge of the platform…*pause*…another ice desk pushes her into the water. SOLID.

Well, the video gave me a good laugh when the player accidentally crushed her to death. Unfortunately I have a cold and this laughter sparked a coughing fit. I consider this a malicious act by the developer of this title, and in retaliation I refuse to play it.

Edit: Okay since the game has been released I decided to lift my boycott. It was a fun diversion while it lasted.

I get that they’re parodying japanese pop culture, but is the engrish really necessary? I mean that’s pretty much just “haha, foreign people talk funny.” Also some of the stuff she says is really kinda racist, like shouting “MANGA” when she flies in the air. I mean it basically lumps japanese culture into one big stereotype.
It’s like making a game about an american black gangster rapper who does drive bys and cant read. And when he gets catapaulted into the air he shouts “WATERMELON!”

The game is basically a rip-off of Boom Blox (a Wii game, pretty good actually). For some stupid reason, the designers shoved in an incredibly annoying fake “haha we so Japanese” vibe that several gullible idiots will undoubtedly believe is authentic. Too bad, the world needs more Boom Blox rip-offs.